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Toru Yano (Wrestling)
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In NJPW, there are plenty of hot-blooded, well-chiseled, brave-as-all-get-out athletes, from the Purest Ace, to the cockiest rich dude, to the most disrespectful slacker...all have that same fire and determination to win their matches.Toru Yano...is not one of those pro-wrestlers. And yet, he has wins over so many fantastic talents like them, nobody should ever underestimate him, for who knows what he's gonna do next? And what depths he'll go to do it?Toru Yano (矢野 通 Yano Tōru, born May 18, 1978), is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New-Japan Pro Wrestling, as one of their most unique...and humorous, talents. Finishing his successful career as a Greco-Roman wrestler for Nihon University, he joined up with NJPW's Toukan Club and debuted for the promotion in 2002. The Toru Yano everyone knows on the other hand, came into being in 2004, when he dyed his hair blonde, and began a long streak of disqualification losses...and hilarious antics. In 2005, he helped create the stable Great Bash Heel (G.B.H.), and has largely been affiliated with wrestlers in it and its subsequent stable CHAOS as its Plucky Comic Relief. He has won the IWGP Tag Team titles with three different partners, the GHC Tag Team Championship with Naomichi Marufuji briefly, and the NEVER Openweight 3-man Belts with the Briscoe Brothers.Yano is primarily a comedy wrestler who rarely, if ever, fights fair, pulling every dirty trick in the book and then some to beat his opponents, usually making a fool of himself and/or the other wrestler in the process. However, because of, or perhaps in spite of, his silly nature, Yano has the reputation of a "Spoiler" in NJPW's tournaments: Frequently eliminating fan favorites and characters that are portrayed as way, way better than him at wrestling losing in upsets...usually stealing something of theirs while he books it to the exit ramp. As a result he's considered one of the all-time great comedy wrestlers, pivotally combining genuine comic hilarity with the credibility to make him a legitimate contender so that his matches are not themselves jokes. | |
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Boisterous Bruiser | |
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Boisterous Bruiser: Was definitely more of one during his early run. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Arguably NJPW's most genre-savvy wrestler, frequently using the promotion's rules to his own advantage, like demanding "breaks" with a chant if he's in the ropes, taking every waking second of opportunity being outside the ring affords him to blindside his opponent or evade their moves, and even using the giant turnbuckle pads as weapons since they're part of the ring and thus not a foreign object. | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: Minoru Suzuki. Suzuki HATES Yano for costing him multiple G1 tournament runs in a row, to the point in the 2017 G1 he just straight up assaulted him right out of the gate...and he STILL lost! | |
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Lethal Joke Character | |
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Lethal Joke Character: Yano is both a flabby goofball who drinks sake and promotes his DVD before his match even starts and a wrestler who has wins over Hiroshi Tanahashi, Katsuyori Shibata, and Minoru Suzuki just to name a FEW, as well as directly orchestrated the near-entirety of G.B.H. jumping ship to CHAOS, the latter of which has lasted strong for over a decade. Do not underestimate YTR. | |
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Traumatic Haircut: Given one by Tajiri after losing a hair vs hair match. | |
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Power Stable | |
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Power Stable: Great Bash Heel and CHAOS. | |
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Desperation Attack | |
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Desperation Attack: One could argue his entire offense is made up of these. | |
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Acrofatic | |
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Acrofatic: Is by far the least in-shape looking wrestler on the New Japan roster...and is one of the quickest. | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: Little did NJPW know that when Toru Yano bleached his hair back in 2004, he'd become the bane of any and all main eventers in the G-Climax. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Initially was less openly funny and more of a giant prick who would just cheat his way to victory without any antics in the mid-00's, he quickly took up more comedic stylings as New Japan brought in more and more openly dangerous talent like Minoru Suzuki, Prince Devitt and the like where he simply couldn't match their ferocity in the same way, forcing him to get far more outlandish and creative with his offense. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: He fights incredibly dirty and does whatever he can to get away with it. He won a G1 Climax match by taping his opponent's legs together outside the ring, therefore winning by ring-out. | |
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat | |
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Toru Yano Stops To Cheat: Many of his losses have come when the opponent finally takes him seriously or even just gets a hold of him in the middle of him trying to break the rules. | |
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Cowardly Lion | |
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Cowardly Lion: Has taken on these tendencies as he's run afoul of dangerous roster members like Minoru Suzuki and various members of the Bullet Club, who he's had to be much more careful in fighting. | |
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Beware the Silly Ones | |
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Beware the Silly Ones: He's as goofy as any comedy wrestler, but smart wrestlers in NJPW know better than to underestimate the depths he will go to in order to win a match. | |
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Chairman of the Brawl | |
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Chairman of the Brawl: His red steel chair and spitting sake in his opponent’s face. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Maybe NJPW's largest. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Yano’s catchphrase involves emphasizing each word while pointing to himself with both thumbs: YANO! TO! RU! Also yes, this is a complete rip-off of what Rob Van Dam does. | |
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Finishing Move | |
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Finishing Move: Oni Koroshi, Kagamiwari and various pinfalls. | |
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I Know Karate | |
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I Know Karate: A former Greco-Roman and Freestyle National champion and even fought MMA in Pancrase. | |
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Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It | |
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Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It: A vast majority of the title matches he's been in have been started because he attacked the legitimate champion and stole the belt. | |
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Garbage Wrestler | |
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Red Baron | |
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Red Baron: "YTR" and "Sublime Master Thief" | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: He hates LIJ!Tetsuya Naito taking his sweet time making his match entrances. As soon as the music plays Yano can be heard bellowing at Naito to hurry up, which does nothing except tempt him to take even longer to walk down to the ring and, especially, strip down to his wrestling gear. | |
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Shrug Take | |
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Shrug Take: His signature pose. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: To his CHAOS teammates, especially the main guys over the years in Shinsuke Nakamura, Kazuchika Okada, and Tomohiro Ishii. Given he and Nakamura were the ones who started CHAOS in the first place, this only makes sense. If there was a sliding scale of seriousness to eccentricity among the four, it would go Ishii, Okada, Nakamura, Yano. | |
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Incoming Ham | |
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Incoming Ham: If you hear plucked strings that transition into sludgy rock riffs during an NJPW show, be prepared to see something hilarious. | |
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Lovable Rogue | |
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Lovable Rogue: Sure he's a massive jackass who runs from his opponents and cheats to win, often from aces and fan favorites, but goshdarnit he is just so hilarious and effective you've got to respect his track record. | |
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NotSoHarmless | |
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Not So Harmless: Occasionally breaks out of his wacky comedy style and shows his legitimate grappling background. Is also well known for ruining popular wrestler's chances to continue on in NJPW's tournaments, regardless of whether or not he's being wacky. | |
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Drunken Master | |
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Drunken Master: Often carries a bottle of sake to the ring. | |
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Lightning Bruiser | |
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Lightning Bruiser: Will try to win matches as fast as he can and is a lot faster than you think a guy who looks like Yano would be. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Usually has some form of brightly colored dragon, frog or toad on his entrance jacket. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Pro Wrestling's artist of the Low Blow. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Somehow turned this into part of his entrance recently, as he shills the latest Yano Toru or CHAOS DVD to the crowd (and even during his speech at the G1 Climax 24 press conference, causing Shinsuke Nakamura and Kazuchika Okada to crack up behind him.) | |
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